---
title: MTLRenderPassStencilAttachmentDescriptor
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Class
path: metal/mtlrenderpassstencilattachmentdescriptor
---

# MTLRenderPassStencilAttachmentDescriptor

A stencil render target that serves as the output destination for stencil pixels generated by a render pass.

## Declaration

```swift
class MTLRenderPassStencilAttachmentDescriptor
```

## Topics

### Specifying the resolve filter

- [stencilResolveFilter](metal/mtlrenderpassstencilattachmentdescriptor/stencilresolvefilter.md)

### Specifying the stencil clear value

- [clearStencil](metal/mtlrenderpassstencilattachmentdescriptor/clearstencil.md)

## Relationships

### Inherits From

- [MTLRenderPassAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpassattachmentdescriptor.md)

### Conforms To

- [CVarArg](swift/cvararg.md)
- [CustomDebugStringConvertible](swift/customdebugstringconvertible.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [NSCopying](foundation/nscopying.md)
- [NSObjectProtocol](objectivec/nsobjectprotocol.md)

## See Also

### Configuring a render command encoder

- [MTL4RenderPassDescriptor](metal/mtl4renderpassdescriptor.md)
- [MTLRenderPassDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpassdescriptor.md)
- [MTLRenderPassAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpassattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLRenderPassColorAttachmentDescriptorArray](metal/mtlrenderpasscolorattachmentdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLRenderPassColorAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpasscolorattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLClearColor](metal/mtlclearcolor.md)
- [MTLRenderPassDepthAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpassdepthattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLMultisampleDepthResolveFilter](metal/mtlmultisampledepthresolvefilter.md)
- [MTL4RenderPipelineColorAttachmentDescriptorArray](metal/mtl4renderpipelinecolorattachmentdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLTileRenderPipelineColorAttachmentDescriptorArray](metal/mtltilerenderpipelinecolorattachmentdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLMultisampleStencilResolveFilter](metal/mtlmultisamplestencilresolvefilter.md)
- [MTLRenderPassSampleBufferAttachmentDescriptorArray](metal/mtlrenderpasssamplebufferattachmentdescriptorarray.md)
- [MTLRenderPassSampleBufferAttachmentDescriptor](metal/mtlrenderpasssamplebufferattachmentdescriptor.md)
- [MTLLogicalToPhysicalColorAttachmentMap](metal/mtllogicaltophysicalcolorattachmentmap.md)
- [MTLDispatchThreadsIndirectArguments](metal/mtldispatchthreadsindirectarguments.md)